TOP STORIES
Lebanon, Syria conduct research for river water management
 The Al-Kabir River forms a natural border between northern Lebanon and southern Syria. Scientists of both countries have joined forces to use modern remote sensing technologies to find solutions for the transboundary water management of its waters.
Rice farmers and insurers set to gain help from satellite imageries
Satellites are being increasingly viewed as useful tools to help farmers and insurance inspectors assess damage to rice crops in Japan. Researchers say they expect to have a high-tech satellite-based observation system up and running in about three years.
NASA satellites yield Antarctic maps
Scientists using satellite data have created detailed maps of the vast snow-covered Antarctic continent. The maps reveal views of surface features that provide clues to how and why the continent's massive ice sheets and glaciers are changing.
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ARTICLES OF THE WEEK
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Physical Accessibility to health care: From Isotropy to Anisotropy
Steeve Ebener
Project Manager
STK, e-Health,WHO
Switzerland
Co- Author:
Zine El Morjani
Nicolas Ray
Michael Black
Public health and health care are important concerns for developing countries and access to health care is a significant factor that contributes to a healthy population. In response to these issues, the WHO has been working in collaboration with a number of academic institutions in Australia, Switzerland and Canada on the development of methods and models for measuring physical accessibility to health care using several layers of information integrated in a GIS.
Health GIS Tools and Applications Informing Decisions in Yemen
Carleen Ghio
GIS Programmer
Co- Author:
Mark Landry
Abdulkadir Nueman
Ahmed Attieg
The USAID-funded Partners for Health Reformplus Project (PHRplus) is assisting five underserved and remote governorates in Yemen to improve their health care systems using evidence-based GIS decision tools based on accurate health and spatial information.
Read More Articles on HEALTH GIS
Spatially enabling the UK National Health Service
GIS for the study and control of infectious diseases
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UTILITY
Sewage Treatment System Management using GIS
Bob Brems,
Ed Shaffer
Zanesville/Muskingum County Health Department, US
Sewage treatment systems are utilized extensively in rural areas of Muskingum County, Ohio to manage wastewater from households that do not have the option of connecting to a municipal system. Muskingum County has over 10,500 existing systems and over 300 new systems are installed each year. To better manage alterations to existing systems and construction of new ones, a GIS was implemented.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
GIS Institute, a division of GIS
Development Pvt Ltd has launched 2 months full-time training
programme " Diploma in Geo-informatics"(GIS, GPS and Remote
Sensing). Fresh batch will start from 2nd January 2006.To register
logon: http://www.gisinstitute.net
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EVENT
Gulf Traffic - GIS Zone
12 – 14 December 2005
Dubai International Exhibition Centre
Dubai
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Company Directory
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